New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-17
CENTRAL PARK AND BEYOND
WHAT CAN BE SEEN ON SPRING SUNDAY;
GLANCE AT THE CROWDS HERE AND rBERE-MEN
WHO DRIVE FAST HORSES

One who knows Central Park on weekdays ony-quiet
secluded dignned, aristocratic; few wclldressed
loungers the benches below the Mall nurses In white
caps and aprons airing their tiny charges on the Walks
and terra aces the drveways splendid with gay veries
and fashionable turnouswould scarcely recognize the
big pleasure ground OF these warm spring SUNDAY
afternoons when the crowd Of unfashionables del
ugesit
The string OF carriages up 70 and around the reservoir
is unbrokcn ever the and monographs ana
nveres gonc The stately vctorias, tho Marty aos
and village CARTS the ensyrolliug barouches have given
way for the most part, TO motley procession OF pia"
cabs and hanson cabs, light driving bugsies, shabby
coupes and landaus, all the old stock IN trado
of downtown stables. Coacbmen with dingy SILK mats
and red sit tho boxes The horses cannot quite
forget the trick OF the stone pavements OUTSIDE anu
shambe along awkwarly over tho Unexpectedly smoo'h
and easy roads Everything is hustle and noise and con-
fusion with gayety enough but rather OF that DUE
ferrous sort that meets generally out on the road
The walks the lower end OF the Park are as
crowded as Fitth-ave on Easter Sunday. On the
benches strollng up and down workingmen IN
Sunday clothes with their wives and families half
dozen puny children after and the inevitable basket OF
paper package OF lunch shopgrls In pairs clerks with
their sweehearts. oilers about town. walters, small
tradesmen, rub and jostlo against one another In their
haste to get up toward the objective point OF all pedcs
ans, tine Terrace the Casino and the big Mall.
The rowboats on the lakes perilousy full OF men
and children the women, for the most part, being con-
tent TO sit the banks and watch the others fun On
the Mall nothing but thick black mass OF
heads and shoulders, stretching far down toward the
southern under the big The trees them
selves turning bud two here there, bus the
crowds eyes the bonnets and dresses rather the
faces and airs OF the tho gay spectacle Cd
the drive at Terrace Bridge the lake beyond
HOW THE CROWDS ACT.
AT tho Casino the little hill above the bridge there
Is another crowd OF seekers eating and drink
Ing. Tho tables OF doors wreck Of bcerslops,
broken straws and ice crusts OF sandwiches, unripe
Strawberries the frat signs of the reentry OF summer
iced-drlnks, and book beer At tho Mcnagorie
there sghtseers than tho buildings and oben
hold and struggling along up the park drives
olllng the benches walking under the trees are
hundreds OF those quleter peopic-oftcn with comfort
able lunch baskets in their handswho dread tho rout
and oproar OF the noisy Mall Casino the constant
comcand-go, the crowdng and OF the busting
restaurant nj Mount St Vincent beyond.
Here, too, there Is a great clicking OF glasses
and fixing OF beer bottles and air, c0nse-
quenty, OF rather animated enjoyment Hero the rsh
youth who has mortgaged weeks salary for Sunday
drive In the Park with his best girl orders equally
reckless OF rereshment And in the little cooks
or places of retreat about, across toward the top
OF the reservoir the thrifty
young men from the big boarding houses may be
found with other best girls popping their own beer
bottles and eating the sandwiches which they have bought
at the Mount 81. Vincent counter
Further up the groups fewer but over near Eighth
ave, they grow thick again. II Is the same thing
everywhere. driving. boating lounging flirting eating
and drinking with vulgar noise and freedom and coarse
often but with the the real arspread enjoyment OF
great popular holiday.
One scarcely knows where begin In this huge tanglc
Of pleasure seekers The crowd is thckes. OF course
the Fifty-nuth-st. gates Here the big coaches
which make the rounds OF the Park twenty-five cents
q scat have their starting points day like last
Sunday even at fifty scventy-nvc cents there wond
have been seats spare. Here along the driveway
for two hundred yards. where the whole train OF
,hs oilers eopersgate chiefly ONE can be for once the
mark OF all eyes By simply sroing past Just To the
below 1t, the first Of the Park lakes dotted ali
Win swankc gSnd9as loaded 20 tue nTi% Win admir-
prnsive and tho little boats are never idle. To
ss the iss o 4 as sn ,Ss.o AT %Ss ss
small boys and girls TO tho Park for SUNDAYS
soer runs strongly up tootpa tina. winds In and
out and under the big driveway TO the arsenal
MExAoERIE. MALL AND TERRACE.
The menagorie TO those who bear Its rather pun
gent odors and hot aud courts, is always
source OF some delight Either the lions
can be made to louder than the hippopota
mus at up out Of his bathtub. or SIR Crowley
tricks Of grnning. or some strange beast
or fowl has just arrived which In NewYok has
ever before The Hons for instance. were the
freshest attraction last Sunday there Is telling
what living curiostcs Mr.. Barnum may deposit for safe
keeping at Arsenal. whom his show leaves Madison
Square.
The arsenal is as FAR many pedestrians on sun
day. But majority would not miss the Mall and
Terrace Bridge Tor the hottest OF suns Here on
and no end OF other attractions The first week In
April. OF course found the big promenade rather
aud lcaess But the huge parade the Nal Itself
OstliuK and flirting, the crowded driveway. the
changing spectacle from The Terrace with ts color and
ment and animation all these carried one forward
10 the height OF tho spring season
CIRCUIT OF THE RESERVOIR
There boats the lake beyond the bridge,
all filed again with men and children. At the top OF
the big stairway that leads down 10 the water the
first OF the coach and from here start
either way OF the big reservoir Up to the left
one passes the American Museum OF Natural History,
just Eghthavc and then by long tour through
the frequened part of tho Park around to the Mount
Vincent restaurant Few people 30 beyond this except
the who speed their trotcrsout on 1.-The Road
One pair every and then In light trottng
buggics with big glass and wire goggles their eyes,
making their way northward pretty brlskly when tho
mounted Park policemen have their backs turned.
II ia an even chance that John J.. Suy other
wclknown sporting celebrity will be the porches
or through the open windows OF the Mount
St Vincent restaurant IA the coach passes The
crowd hero IA dressed than at the Casino.
and the favorite vehicle OF sunday standing about the
door is fresh. high polished hanson. Down the drive
way again one may meet many we'll known people drv
ing for the air seeing the sights T. r. Barnum In
tho Park last Sunday afternoon 80 Patti driving with
Ncolin They follow the weekday route. OF course. and
the big. vulgar crowd only at distance
The Metropolitan Museum OF Art, at Eighty secondst
is fast shut though some people seem TO- be lettering
ionngers too the base of the Obesk After That
one misses the crowds ana the hum ana bzz OF Their
Mall reached again. The pedestrians OF hafhour